Morning journal and courier., 1887-12-17

A new danger for lawyers is made con- spicuous by the action of Q man who has just been released from the Nebraska State prison and has sued the lawyer who defended him in the trial that resulted in his conviction for $50, 900 damages. He claims that the conviction was the result of the lawyers malpractice.
 Carefully prepared statistics show that there are 500, ,000 criminals in this country, only 50, 900 of whom are incareerated. Of the 500, 900 it is estimated that one third are under twenty years of ago, one-half under twenty one years of age and a fraction lander twenty two years of age, and the chances are that most of them will continue criminals through the rest of their lives.
 The Rev. F. F. Jewell, a Methodist preach CT of San Jose, California, has stirred up the people of his region by appealing in circu- lar to all religious and temperance organiza- tions to file protests to be presented to Sen ator Stanford asking him not to endow his new university with money derived from the sale of wine. MT. Jewell says that if he does the university will be founded on the ruin of young men. A large part of the lands that form it's endowment are devoted to grape growing.
 The Boston Transcripts Washington core spondent ''lets the cat out of the bag" as fol- lows: It is very evident that the Democrats 1 here are not so confident and happy as they | were on the day when the Lth congress I opened. The change in their demeanor has been wrought by the Presidents message. They made pretense of approving the mes- sage for appearance sake, but in reality the great majority of the party have been ren- i dered very uneasy and apprehensiye by it, and by Mir. Blaine's reply to it. The mes- sage satisfies neither the Randall men nor the Carlisle men. It pleases only 8 few extrem- 1 ists like Mills.
 l The death of the principal proprietor Of 1 the Bon Marehe in Paris calls attention to l the organization of that monster business es-
 tablishment as literary, hygisnic and char
 itsble institution. The three thousand em- ployes of the establishment are provided
 with facilities for study during their leisure
 hours. Literature, the languages and music,
 as well as commercial education, are taught.
 Employees disabled by sickness are attended
 by physicians paid by the establishment, and
 there is an excellent restaurant at which all
 connected with the business are served with
 the same fare. Mme Boucicautis fortune of
 $15, 5,000, ,000 goes largely to charitable, artis-
 tic, literary and religious institutions. Her
 employees get sums varying from $200 to s2,-
 900.
 A spade for the use of infantry which
 has lately been invented by an English army
 officer is an interesting instrument. It con-
 sists of a detachable steel blade, which is car ried in a leather case strapped on the sol- , dier's chest, where it serves as a fairly ef-
 fective breastplate, for it will turn 8 rifle
 ball at any range above 200 yards. The
 shaft is carried at the left side, and being made of steel tubing it forms scabbard for the ordinary bayonet. At one end of the
 shaft is erosspiece to serve as pick. This crosspiece also forms the handle when at . tsehed to the spade head. The attachment of shaft to blade is easily made, the lower . end of the shaft fitting into socket in the blade, where it is firmly clipped by ring. To close the list of uses, there is a groove on l the pick head so that the shaft can be used